I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINEI sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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